Call to Arms

Lately, I have felt this "call to arms" to connect to other women in a strong and meaningful way. I am not sure what it means or what it looks like, but I know that I am being gently guided to people and events that I am meant to know and experience.

Through my sister, I met Nellie Moore. Nellie is facilitating a women's circle at my sister's coffee shop, Earth Angels in River Falls, WI every other Tuesday night at 7:00 pm. All women over 18 are welcome. This has been a powerful experience for me. I have found that being single again has helped me to confront some of my fears of being alone. Rather than (as I would have in the past) filling that space with any available man, I am learning to fill that space with love, peace, acceptance and strong women who help to carry us through and reflect back to us our own amazing strength.

This is a journey in progress and I will keep you posted as I go and I hope you will journey with me and share your experiences.

But, the point of this post is to share an experience I had over the weekend. My niece Rena is pregnant and her baby shower was on Sunday. It was a lovely event hosted by my other niece, Ari.

Nellie Moore, an amazing woman and Shamana was in attendance and performed a beautiful and powerful exercise of love and connectedness for Mom and Baby.

Here is how it went: Nellie brought a spool of yarn, and wrapped the end of it around Mom's wrist several times, moved on to the next person who did the same, looped their wrist several times and passed the spool on, this continued until everyone in the room had done it. Please know, the spool was not cut at this point and so we were all connected to each other by this spool of yarn. Nellie then said a blessing for mom and baby and we all held up our wrists that were connected and silently we all made wishes for mom and baby. Then we passed a scissors and the yarn was cut and we all wrapped the ends around our wrists to make a bracelet.

Now, at this point everyone has a choice of whather or not to keep their bracelet on. The intention is that we all wear our bracelets until the baby is born as a constant reminder of the strength and hope we intend for mom and baby. As we wear our bracelets and live our lives, the yarn will felt together and fuse the individual strings into one strong, solid strand.

I found this ceremony to be powerful and beautiful. To me, the bracelet is an amazing reminder of all of the people who love and care for us and the strength we have together.

This bracelet has a dual meaning for me, not just for Rena and baby girl, but for my niece Ari as she embarks on a new journey in her life. When I look at this bracelet I will think of and send love to all three of these amazing women I am blessed to have in my life.

Always Connected,

Gabbi